24 hours in the viking world : a day in the life of the people who lived there
Kirsten Wolf
Bok · Engelsk · 2024 · Biografisk litteratur
| Omfang | 271 sider
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| Opplysninger | Take a step back in time to the world of the vikings and spend a day with the people who lived there. The Viking Age encompassed some of the most dramatic changes in medieval history, as the modern kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden took shape, Iceland was fully settled and the pagan Scandinavian religion was abandoned in favour of Christianity. Those living during this period also witnessed rapid technological developments: bridges and fortresses were built, and great advances were made in shipbuilding and navigation, enabling voyages, raids and colonization efforts vastly greater in scope than anything that had come before. In this book we find out what a day in the Viking world was like by spending twenty-four hours with the people of medieval Scandinavia and Iceland. Every hour we meet a different character - from farmers to kings, traders to warriors, lawspeakers to rune-carvers - and explore the multi-layered fabric of the societies in which they lived. What can the lives of ordinary people tell us about the viking world itself? Discover the craft that went into crafting the fearsome Viking longboat, the techniques used by healers to treat wounded warriors, and get to know the real Viking world through the eyes of its people.
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| ISBN | 9781789295832
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| Hylleplass | 948.022 WOL
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